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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 2601574, member: 5682&quot;]I don&#039;t need the bling.</p><p><br /></p><p>I like the history, however. Here&#039;s a nice piece from the auction (I won&#039;t be able to afford). I had to read about this usurper:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]568011[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Alexander of Carthage. </b>Usurper, AD 308-310. Æ Follis (21mm, 4.89 g, 6h). Carthago (Caerhage) mint. IMP ALEXANDER P F AVG, laureate head right / ROMAE AETERIIAE, Roma, holding globe in outstretched right hand and scepter in left, seated facing, head left within hexastyle temple façade; PK. RIC VI 70; Salama type VII, portrait style G. Near EF, brown surfaces, a few hard green deposits, minor roughness. Very rare.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domitius_Alexander" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domitius_Alexander" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domitius_Alexander</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Another usurper:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]568013[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Martinian. </b>Usurper, AD 324. Æ Follis (20mm, 3.01 g, 12h). Nicomedia mint, 2nd officina. D N M MARTINIANO P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / IOVI CONS ERVATORI, Jupiter standing left, holding Victory on globe in right hand, eagle-tipped scepter in left; to left, eagle standing left, head right, holding wreath in its beak; to right, bound captive kneeling right; X/IIΓ//SMNB. RIC VII 46; cf. Hunter 1 (different obv. legend). VF, green patina, cleaning scratches, some gray deposits, minor roughness. Very rare.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>From the KD Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 80 (20 October 2014), lot 254.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>During his war with Constantine, Licinius appointed his <i>magister officiorum</i>, Martinian, as his co-emperor. The new Augustus was then deployed to Lampsacus to oppose Constantine&#039;s army as it crossed the Hellespont. After his defeat, Martinian was imprisoned in Cappadocia, where he was later executed on Constantine&#039;s orders. During his brief reign, Martinian struck coinage at two mints, Cyzicus and Nicomedia.</p><p><br /></p><p>And this one:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]568014[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Procopius. </b>Usurper, AD 365-366. AR Siliqua (19mm, 2.27 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 2nd officina. D N PROCO PIVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VOT/V in two lines within wreath; C•B. RIC IX 13e.2; RSC 14†c. Near EF, toned.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procopius_(usurper)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procopius_(usurper)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procopius_(usurper)</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Simply great pieces of history and works of art, these coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]568016[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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